Lightroom CC: Add Color Labels

I added thousands of photos (other than those in Synced Catalogs) and now I cannot differentiate them other than by the standard filters provided because I have used color labels to identify certain criteria. Color labels are just as important as Flags, Please add them!

Yes I am talking about the new cloud based Lightroom cc. I have many collections in Lightroom cc classic that have been synced but within those collections I have categorised by Color label, which I now cannot see!

This is also important to me. While I use ratings and picks, I also use color labels to add an additional dimension of metadata to my photos. For example, I use color labels for marking photos that I plan on having professionally printed, and another color label for photos that will be published to 500px (all photos that are printed will also be published online, so there's an implied hierarchy here).

In absence of support for color labels in Lightroom CC, I've adopted a convoluted workflow of using picks as a proxy for color labels: I then filter by picks in Lightroom Classic, apply the appropriate color label to the selected photos, clear the flag, and then do a second pass in Lightroom CC to apply the actual flag to the collection. This is clearly suboptimal, and a frustrating workaround.

That said, even having initial read-only support for color labels would be a welcome improvement, acknowledging that Lightroom CC isn't going to have full feature parity with Lightroom Classic.

This has been the biggest obstacle to me adopting a Lightroom CC mobile workflow. I really like the ease and simplicity of making basic edits and ratings on e.g. my tablet, while doing more serious edits in Lightroom Classic CC. But without the ability to view, set, or filter by color labels in Lightroom CC, this becomes really disruptive to my workflow. Ratings and flags are useful, but they're not sufficient for sorting through large collections.

I really like the new Lightroom CC and for someone with a large Catalogue I think it will work well along side Lightroom Classic CC however I would really like to be able to Colour Code images within Lightroom CC. I hope this is in the pipeline for an upcoming release.

Adding and filtering by colour labels is a crucial part of my workflow. In the latest Lightroom Classic Version I was able to add colour labels, but am unable to "filter and view" by the assigned labels. Is there a workaround for this? Please help since this is disrupting my entire workflow. Thanks

I've used Lightroom Classic for years, and have only started using LR CC recently, but now I don't know how useful it is if I can't filter by color labels, let alone see them in CC. Having only stars (which I never use because it can give the wrong impression to clients) and flags as means to filter is not helpful.

Victoria: The main problem I see with that workaround is that keywords in Lightroom CC don't sync with keywords in Lightroom Classic, so that makes it difficult to e.g. then filter by that keyword to set "proper" color labels in Lightroom Classic. And, of course, keywords aren't presented in the index view, so it's difficult to get a quick summary—though, at least, you could filter by them.

I use all of the available organizational features—keywords, star ratings, flags, and color labels—for different purposes. So if any of these are missing, I can't move to Lightroom CC without completely rethinking all of my workflows. My workaround is to continue using Classic. :)

Just added a vote for supporting the color labels in the Lightroom CC ( on IOS). I use the color labels to mark the progression of my workflow. Red for images that will be edited, yellow for images that have been edited but not exported, Green for exported/complete. I use photomechnic to ingest/cull/and edit metadata.. There is a PM preference to use the Lightroom color labels. and that allows me to the start the process in one app and end it in another. I can even use the same keyboard short cuts ( 6 for red, 7 for yellow, 8 for green) in both applications. Well it allows me to do that with Lightroom CC Classic. I sync CC classic with my iPad and then ...boom no more color labels. Kind of a pain to get back to CC Classic on the desktop and then have to adjust the color label to continue with my workflow.

CC is basically amputated and brain dead without keyword and color label support together with the constant crashing when brush adjustments are applied to photos and viewed via CC on android tablet (auto report a million times)

Home desktop win10 is where I do all importing, culling, keyword, color labels etc and sync to cloud.... laptop at studio enables work on projects started at home and client reviews, I sync via CC then switch to classic on laptop. Seriously, no labels, keywords are synced ?....

How am I supposed to find stuff to show clients without looking like a clunky idiot stumbling around searching by looking... star ratings is not a viable or sensible workaround.

Nearly one yr this thread and no word from Adobe rep...! Pls action these features, tnx.

A colored box around the thumbnail on the strip will make is stand out as marked. Currently you can flag or reject or star rate. If there were 2-3 colors that could be selected as denoting status, you would be able to see them at a glance on the filmstrip view below the editing of the images.

Please add color labels! IT seems a lot of us have our workflows broken between our Desktop or laptop and tablet. Surely there’s enough support for this by now to add the functionality. This thread has been going on for a year and still no support from ADOBE.

Yeah, so we had 6-7 releases sinse the request got traction, and still nothing.

Please, Adobe add color lables, watermarks, import/export options, drag and drop and other highly requested features that are sorely missing and been requested on this forum for years!

Please listen to your customers, our view on development has changed drastically since you transitioned to the subscription model. The user has also changed, we want it now, because we pay each and every month. Times, when you saved money for a several thousand dollar software like it was a car, then bought it and used it for years while being really happy you've got it are over. We now need constant improvement and a clear roadmap, we need you to listen. Of all the 40 pages of Ideas on this forum, spanning through years of feedback, there are only a few that has an Implemented tag to them.